The Pilotman

1M00 1322 Brighton to Liverpool Lime Street. After Clapham Junction it would have called at Kensington Olympia then Milton Keynes, with a loco change at Mitre Bridge.

Have you checked their website? It says the order book is already open for the N versions, and opening at the end of May for the OO versions.

I’m not sure there is much light to shed… I’d bet good money that it went something like this: BA Airbus is cleared to line up on runway 27 Right. MH A350 is cleared to line up after it. The BA Airbus isn’t cleared for take off immediately (if the previous departure was a heavy, or on the same departure route, a delay is to be expected). The A350 enters the runway (correctly) and perhaps doesn’t realise the BA isn’t going to go straightaway so keeps inching forward expecting it to go any second and ends up where it does. Pure speculation, of course, but extremely plausible.

At airports with high intensity runway operations (like Heathrow) it is expected that an aircraft will be ready to commence its take off run as soon as it is cleared by ATC to do so. It is simply not necessary to get right behind the aircraft on the runway (as shown in the video clip) in order to accomplish this. That video is the first time I’ve seen anyone do that.

Two issues here; 1) was the Malaysian A350 allowed to do that? Yes (it would have been a conditional clearance) 2) was it good airmanship to get quite so close behind another aircraft? In my opinion, no. You’re not gaining anything; just ingesting the exhaust of the aircraft in front.

I think it would be helpful if @dexterph5 specified where in Scotland and when in the 1960s, otherwise this could become a very long and potentially time-wasting thread.

Humankind is ruled by cats, surely?

I’ll bet I can guess what you were doing there…. 😉

This made me smile; discovering the facility to block the tedious posts of the serial offenders of thread drift, posters of rubbish pictures and people who frequent and comment on the humour threads despite not actually appearing to have a sense of humour themselves. It’s made looking at RMWeb a much more satisfying experience.

Absolutely delighted with the N Gauge PBAs; I’ve been waiting a long time for these to appear. The weathered white ones look particularly good and the price is a pleasant surprise too.

I’m not sure there’s any fundamental difference between reading an email that says a model has been delayed, or reading it on a manufacturer’s website. Except, perhaps, the latter is easier for the manufacturer to disseminate the information. Anyway, we clearly have different ideas about what is reasonable so I’m going to leave it there.

They’ve got a website where they post the most up to date information they have. That saves them having to post on here, and on all the other platforms they use, which would take up more of their valuable time. I would much rather they use their time to bring models to the market that we want to buy, than tell us every time there’s been a power cut in one of the factories, or there’s a delay in getting a shipping container. As for “having to check the website all the time”. Really? You don’t have to check it all the time, or even at all. You can just wait for the model to arrive. People have lost a sense of patience and proportion. 🙄

Having taken well over a thousand flights (so far), I think I am reasonably qualified to add to this post. Here is a selection of my highlights from over thirty-five years of flying (in no particular order)… Best experience: Anchorage to St.Paul Island on a Reeve Aleutian Airways Lockheed Electra (catering provided by Subway!) Worst experience: middle seat (in a 2-5-2 configuration) in a NorthWest Airlines DC10, Gatwick to Minneapolis/St.Paul Best airline: Lufthansa Worst airline: Gulf Air Most attractive cabin crew: Icelandair 🤭 Best meal (short-haul): a chicken salad on a British Airways flight from Inverness to Heathrow in 1995 Worst meal (short-haul): a packet of carrots (NorthWest Airlines, Minneapolis/St.Paul to Seattle) Best meal (long haul): wagyu beef, British Airways, Tokyo Narita to Heathrow (well, it was First Class…) Most surprising catering: jam doughnuts on Augsburg Airways, London City to Münster/Osnabrück Luggage going somewhere else: Auckland to Honolulu flight with Air New Zealand but my luggage went to Tokyo (got it back the following day) Scariest moment: climbing out of Charlotte, North Carolina in a USAir Boeing 757 with thunderstorms all around. A bit like some of the rides at Alton Towers… Next most scariest moment: landing in a Twin Otter in Lukla, Nepal, long before I’d seen it on the Discovery Channel’s programme about the world’s most dangerous airports.

Definitely interested in some of these. Can I ask C=Rail if the N Gauge FSA/FTA wagons are imminent? If so, I’ll hang on for a bit and place a combined container/wagon order.

Absolutely one of a kind. There will never be anyone remotely like Barry Humphries.

So did I!

First two are Slough.

Whacky signs, Whacky signs, wherefore art thou Whacky Signs?

There must have been a few; Accurascale are doing one in OO in that livery. The Mk1s look like InterCity Motorail branded to me.

Could those wishing to continue the parents vs teachers vs youth of today discussion perhaps go and do so behind the bike sheds please. 😉

Contrasting cab profiles at Glasgow Central yesterday.

True, but if you put a half mil washer under each bogie spigot, the Mk2s look fine coupled to Mk1s. Job done.

I was taught at school that the correct “rule” should be “I before E except after C when the sound is ee” With that being the case, the only anomalies in the picture are Keith and weird. All the others comply.

47787 has picked up a nice collection of flying insects!!